No I was always pretty good at that in school; don’t give the correct answer, give the answer that the guy who wrote the test is looking for. Because everyone knows the goal of school is to pass tests, not learn things.

World of Warcraft – both my kids, now graduate Engineers, learned and practiced pretty much all of the SCANS skills while they spent way toooo much time playing WoW instead of working on yet another problem set for Fluid Mechanics.

Both had to do a reset – cut back on something they found so intellectually challenging and personally gratifying to just do what was asked and provide enough right answers to graduate.

I wish I had learned the basics of philosophy which would have led me to the world of reason or reasoning – the ‘whys’ to my actions and reactions. It would have taught me earlier in life that time spent in reflection is productive. Understanding the reasons why we did things or why some things occurred can allow us to avoid these scenarios in the future, again allowing us to accept that it is ok to fail, but try to learn from that failure. anyway, back to work!!